Improvement in camp-stools



UNITED STATES PATENT ERNEST W. GOURD, OF FRANKLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,162, dated June 19, 1877; application filed April 11, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST W. GoURD, of Franklin, in the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a pocket camp-stool=fthat is to say, a campstool so constructed that it can be taken apart and packed in such small compass as to be capable of being carried without inconvenience in a pocket to and from the place where it may be desired to use it. To this end I provide a tri-pivot with a longitudinal female screw in each of its branches, which are to receive, respectively, a double socket or hollow metallic tube, with a transverse opening in its middle, of suitable size to slide it on the pivot, where it is then fastened by a Vmale screw entering the female y screw in the pivot. In each end of each socket I fit a section of the leg of the stool snugly but removably, and thus complete the organization of the stool, the upper sections being connected together, in the usual maner, with Va web or strap.

In the drawings, Figure l represents the tri-pivot detached; Fig. 2, one of the hollow sockets with its transverse opening a. 1 Fig. 3 is a view, in perspective, of my stool complete, with one of the sockets partly broken away.

A indicates the lower removable sections of the legs, and B the upper removable sections, connected by a web, U. -D indicates the tri-pivot, with its screw-holes d, and E the double sockets, with transverse openings to permit them to be slid onto thearms ofthe pivot and secured there by the screws and collars e e.

' Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to .secure by Letters Patent, is-

'1. The tri-pivot having longitudinal holes Y ERNEST W. GOURD.

Witnesses: u,

JAMES L. FooTE, E. B. S. SANBORN.' 

